It is time once again for the greatest sporting event of year. It is that time known as March Madness. The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Once again, I will be sponsoring a NCAA Tournament Pool. There is no cost to enter the pool, except for pride. And if pride is… Read More »Roundball Oracles – Year 18/F & P – Vol. 4
I need to start today’s post by wishing Laura a happy birthday. Happy birthday Laura! For most people I wish them a birthday full of joy. For Laura, I just hope she got some rest. +++++++ Time once again to share a collection of pictures from my photo shoot with… Read More »Fran & Pepper 2022 – Vol. 3
It has been 6,052 days since August 9, 2006. 16 years. 6 months. 24 days. Since I first posted something in this little experiment known as “An Artist’s Notebook”. 145,2485 hours. 8,714,800 minutes. 522,892,800 seconds. Which is to say, it has been a minute. There are some very important people… Read More »An Artist’s Notebook Post #4757
I need to start off by wishing Micky a happy birthday. Happy birthday Micky!! I hope your birthday was filled with as much joy and happiness and you could handle. +++++++ It is time for another Formal Portrait Sunday. Time to share more pictures from the photo shoot with Fran… Read More »Fran & Pepper 2022 – Vol. 2
I recently purchase a new lens. The SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS. It filled the most glaring gap in my Sony E Mount lens arsenal. I was badly missing a long telephoto lens. My longest lens before purchasing this was my Tamron 70-180. Here are the specifications for the… Read More »SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports
Time once again for a Formal Portrait Sunday. This time I’m going to share the first collection of family pictures I took of Fran and Pepper a few months back. It wasn’t the warmest day, but the lighting was actually perfect for once. And I will trade cold for good… Read More »Fran & Pepper 2022 – Vol. 1
Time to share another collection of images from my road trip to harvest the town signs of Clayton County that I took back in July. These images were once again, all taken in Dubuque County. That area of the state, Clayton County, Allamakee County, and Dubuque County is the prettiest… Read More »Clayton County Aux. – Vol. 2
PLAY! Seems like a great theme on the surface. But did PLAY trigger people to PLAY with their cameras? You’ll have to keep scrolling to find out. As of 12:01 PM on Monday, February 13, this was the current list of ACTIVE streaks (ignore the numbers in parentheses): 1-Jen Ensley-Gorshe… Read More »WPC – WEEK 387 – PLAY
Time for another Formal Portrait Sunday. This is the final collection of images from the photo shoot with Elainie & Sabas from last fall. There aren’t many pictures left to share, so this is a pretty small collection. I only have one more formal portrait photo shoot to share. Hopefully… Read More »Elainie & Sabas 2022 – Vol. 3
Time once again for another Formal Portrait Sunday. Once again, sharing a collection of pictures from when I took portraits for Elainie and Sabas last year. Here are some of my favorites: I still have one more small collection of images from this photo shoot left to share. How about… Read More »Elainie & Sabas 2022 – Vol. 2
I’ve finally gotten around to having another Formal Portrait Sunday. I don’t take many formal portraits, so I don’t have many of these. This one though is dedicated to some pictures I took of Elainie and Sabas from a few months back. Here are some of my favorites: Still plenty… Read More »Elainie & Sabas 2022 – Vol. 1
Time for another Formal Portrait Sunday. This is the final collection of images from the Howards 2022 Family Photo Shoot. Still have a few formal photo shoots to share on our Formal Portrait Sundays. Up next will probably be Johnathan and Ashley and Brayden.
Today I’m going to share a collection of images that I took for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme BLACK & WHITE, but they didn’t make the cut. As you know, BLACK & WHITE is my first love in photography and therefore will always be a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO… Read More »I Wore Makeup When We Dated
Time for another Formal Portrait Sunday. Last Sunday I accidentally refers to this collection as the 2023 Howards. My proofreader, that only proofreads after I publish alerted me to this right away. Obviously, I do not have access to a time machine. These pictures are from 2022. Sorry to those… Read More »The 2022 Howards – Vol. 2
So here we are. Another Formal Portrait Sunday. I think I’ve finally figured out how I want to handle these in the future. I think I will still space them out, but not over so many posts. 2 to 3 posts per formal portrait sitting should be more than enough.… Read More »The 2022 Howards – Vol. 1
It is time for another Formal Portrait Sunday. This is the last collection of formal portraits I took over a certain period of time. Therefore, this might be the last Formal Portrait Sunday OR in might be the last Formal Portrait Sunday to look like this OR it might just… Read More »Baugher Family 2022 – Volume 3
We’re almost to the end of Formal Portrait Sundays. This is the last collection of pictures of Jayton. Since I started Formal Portrait Sunday I’ve really only taken one other set of formal portraits (depending on how you count time) and I will share those on a Formal Portrait Sunday,… Read More »Jayton – Volume 10
It is another Formal Portrait Sunday. This will be the 6th and final collection of images from the Howards 2021 Family Photo Shoot. In fact this is the final collection of Formal Portrait images from 2021. Might be the final collection of images I share from 2021. There are a… Read More »The Howards – Volume 6
It is another Formal Portrait Sunday. This is the second to last collection of images from Jayton’s two Senior Picture Photo Shoots. This collection features some pictures with his dog. They are bittersweet because Jayton’s dog passed away shortly after these pictures were taken. Next Sunday will be the final… Read More »Jayton – Volume 9
It is time for another formal portrait Sunday. Once again we will check-in with the Baugher Family Photo Shoot of 2022. Still one more collection of pictures from this photo shoot left to share. Next Formal Portrait Sunday we will check-in again on one of Jayton’s Senior Picture Photo Shoots.
It is once again time for a Formal Portrait Sunday. This time we are checking back in with Jayton’s Summer Senior Picture Photo Shoot. After this, there will be only one collection of Jayton photos left to share. I know you will miss him as much as me. Next Formal… Read More »Jayton – Volume 8